Rick Santorum dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday. Almost to a column, editorial and news account, the analysis centered on Santorums somewhat successful capture of conservative voters.

And there lies the mystery. How could a man seemingly so opposite of conservative have entranced so many voters who label themselves just that?

The easy answer is that as someone who made his religion such a prominent part of his campaign strategy... religious types who tend toward conservatism perhaps felt theyd found their man.

[...]

Indeed, if we ignore for a moment how very anti-conservative it is for any candidate to coddle certain commercial sectors, the simple truth is that to the extent that manufacturing jobs were ever glorious (a big reach on its own considering the proud history of sons and daughters of factory workers moving away from manufacturing locales), the very investors whose capital creates those jobs feel its yesterdays news. That investors no longer value factory work explains why they migrated to China, and why a rising China has begun to similarly shed those jobs. For Santorum to then say hell bring them back not only smacks of a controlling, central planning gene, but it also speaks to a candidate divorced from reality in the economic sense. If Santorum were to actually succeed in reducing the manufacturing tax rate to zero, this wouldnt alter the all-important investor perception of work that is no longer valued from a labor-intensive point of view.

Happily Santorums candidacy is in the rear-view mirror. Not so happy, however, is what his candidacy said about the beliefs of conservatives. If Santorum was truly their guy, it seems a movement once animated by the sunny, economically advanced dynamism of Ronald Reagan has taken a giant, impoverishing leap backwards.

Because Rick Santorum was a CONSERVATIVE! Mark Levin said he was one of the most conservative senators in the past 50 years.

And he received an A+ rating from the NRA, and here’s one of the many reasons why:

He [Rick Santorum] was the most effective advocate of bringing it [legislation to protect gun companies from frivolous lawsuits] to the floor and getting a vote scheduled. He used his influence to get it to the floor. Without that, we would have lost every American gun company.

Each one of the Republican had their 10 minutes of fame. RS just happened to be the latest in the bunch. He was lucky only that his turn was during the primaries. Mitt Romney will be our candidate and it is beginning to be the time to rally behind him

Rick Perry was my first choice Newt was my second choice but, it is not going to happen. We need to get rid of obama, that needs to be our objective.

Each one of the Republican had their 10 minutes of fame. RS just happened to be the latest in the bunch. He was lucky only that his turn was during the primaries. Mitt Romney will be our candidate and it is beginning to be the time to rally behind him

Rick Perry was my first choice Newt was my second choice but, it is not going to happen. We need to get rid of obama, that needs to be our objective.

People, like Rush, who actually did their research, KNEW how conservative Rick is:

“Rush: Santorum is last real conservative still standing
Rush contends that Santorum is winning now because he is the last real conservative still standing and that if the establishment were right, Romney would be winning everything and the race would already be over.

To the question of whether Santorum has broad appeal, Rush reframes it to Does conservatism, properly explained, cheerfully proclaimed, have broad appeal? He says it does every time its tried, its just that it doesnt get tried enough. But it is essential to paint the stark contrast to Obamas policies and Santorum can do it”

Scuzzyflubber ALSO seems to have been a classical FISCAL CONSERVATIVE ~ which most of these union guys are ~ which is why half of them always vote Republican no matter what the top leaders want them to do!

No doubt the locals up there were confused, but at the time she was "right" on the topics of the day ~ although she was certainly wrong about killing babies and that sort of stuff.

10 years earlier she might have got away with it. Reminds me a lot of the character who was Tony's wife in the Sopranos, and not terribly like his ever so leftwingtard sister!

Newt discussed the situation in an interview. It's been discussed in magazines and newspapers ~ local and national.

Just like in Virginia, if you operate your primary in a way that no one can run in it you will forever and a day be accused of cheating. The ol'boys in New York sat down together and chose a party hack ~ apparently without finding out what her party was!

BTW, the House of Representatives did, in fact, Impeach Billzo. You probably missed that part.

No, I didn't. It was botched because both Newt and Bob Livingston had affairs of their own they didn't want outed so they lacked zeal in leading the impeachment through the Senate. Livingston fessed up and resigned while Newt kept his secret but was oddly silent about Clinton's crimes toward the middle and latter parts of the impeachment saga. You probably missed that part.

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posted on 04/14/2012 10:47:09 AM PDT
by OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)

Exactly. You nailed it. I never bought into trying to make Newt something he isn’t. If you go back some years, his recored is awful. That is because he is a big government republican acting conservative now to try and get voters.

Bleah, stop spewing your lies. Where is this mythical talk of a show on FOX? RINO Roger Ailes just said Newt will never be back on FOX, that’s how much of a GOP establishment a**hole he is. Newt’s out on the campaign trail, still updating his stump speech and just delivered it in North Carolina 2 days ago.

Rick’s FIGHT?! LOL! When the going got tough, he dropped out! Some of the evangelical leaders who backed him now say they made a mistake and wish they had backed Newt. Newt is still going all the way to Tampa and has been campaigning in Delaware, North Carolina at at the NRA in Missouri. He said he’s gotten 6,000 new donations since Rick tucked his tail between his legs and scurried home, afraid he would lose Pennsylvania.

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posted on 04/16/2012 1:02:02 PM PDT
by JediJones
(From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)

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